Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month was established in Britain in 2008 as a way of challenging stereotypes and prejudice, and raising awareness of the diverse heritage and rich contributions of ...

My friend Donald Cohen has written a new book about Gypsy Music called Gypsy Voices: Songs from the Romani Soul. It is his third book about music; his earlier books include Fado Português: Songs from ...

This is the latest in a series profiling Pikes Peak region bands. Grace Easley and Gordon Lewis met while playing music in Springfield, Mo., and fell in love. “We both had instruments in hand when we ...

The celebratory music documentary “Gypsy Caravan” charts the North American tour of five Roma music acts from four countries. In the process, filmmaker Jasmine Dellal digs into individuals’ lives, ...

Everybody assumes the people most refer to as Gypsies, who prefer the name Roma, are travellers. In fact the common stereotype we have of the Roma is that they travel around in caravans stealing from ...

Summertime and the living is frenzied in Paris's trendy nightclub neighborhood of Pigalle. Where absinthe-swigging artists, musicians and cabaret singers once swarmed to watch the can-can girls raise ...

It’s easy to understand the allure of Gypsy music. It evokes a certain amount of vagabond romanticism that comes from a culture of people who have wandered for generations. There is also a passion in ...

Vol. 24, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: The New Old Europe Sound: Claiming Balkan, Romani, and Klezmer Musics (August 2015), pp. 260-285 (26 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. This article explores ...

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This week Rhythm Planet features music from a new book by music historian Donald Cohen, Gypsy Voices: Songs from the Romani Soul. The new volume explores the Roma diaspora throughout Eastern Europe, ...